Definitions
A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.
Word origin
From pay + phone.
Used in a sentence
“I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.”
“You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Public coin caller”8 letters
02“Coin-operated caller”8 letters
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